Bitcoin at $83,216, Ether at $2,498: crypto prices today, October 13, 2026

Bitcoin traded at about $83,216 on Coinbase early Tuesday, up 0.7% over 24 hours but down 2.7% over seven days. Ether was at $2,498, down 1.3% on the day and 7.4% on the week. Seven of the eight coins we track fell over 24 hours; Bitcoin was the only one higher. Cardano (down 6.3%) and Avalanche (down 6.1%) fell the most, and every coin is lower than it was a week ago, with Solana and Cardano down more than 12%.

Prices at a glance

Coin	Price	24 hours	7 days
Bitcoin (BTC)	$83,216	+0.7%	-2.7%
Ether (ETH)	$2,498	-1.3%	-7.4%
Solana (SOL)	$105.99	-3.8%	-12.2%
XRP	$1.3575	-2.3%	-9.3%
Dogecoin (DOGE)	$0.0834	-2.9%	-10.9%
Cardano (ADA)	$0.2326	-6.3%	-13.0%
Chainlink (LINK)	$12.82	-2.8%	-8.2%
Avalanche (AVAX)	$10.23	-6.1%	-11.9%

Coinbase Exchange prices at about 8:05 AM ET on October 13. The 24-hour change compares the latest trade with the price at the open of the 24-hour window. The 7-day change compares it with the October 6 daily close (UTC).

Bitcoin holds while alts bleed

The gap between Bitcoin and the rest is the main feature of the tape. Over the past week Bitcoin is down 2.7%, while the other seven coins are down between 7% and 13%. On Coinbase, Bitcoin's 24-hour range was $80,927 to $84,070, so it dipped about 2.1% below where it sits now before recovering. That matches CoinDesk's report of Bitcoin and Ether slipping overnight and then rebounding.

Asia's AI selloff, and what Bitcoin did with it

The overnight trigger was in equities. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix fell about 7% and 10% in South Korea, CoinDesk reported, after Broadcom CEO Hock Tan likened speculative AI investing to gambling in a casino, as quoted by the Financial Times, and after Bloomberg reported advances in memory-chip technology at China's CXMT.

CoinDesk's separate analysis of the divergence put the 20-day rolling correlation between Bitcoin and the KOSPI at -0.41 on a weekly chart. It cautioned that correlation alone does not establish that money is rotating out of AI stocks and into Bitcoin. We would add that the altcoin table above does not look like a rotation into crypto: most of the market fell too.

South Korea blocks 27 exchanges

South Korea's Financial Intelligence Unit announced Tuesday that it is blocking 27 unregistered crypto exchanges, including BitMart and KuCoin, CoinDesk reported. The regulator said it has referred 44 unregistered operators to investigators, and only 28 virtual asset service providers are currently registered. A KuCoin spokesperson said user assets remain safe. We did not find a source linking the block to today's price moves, and the exchanges involved are offshore venues rather than the large registered Korean platforms.

What traders are watching

• U.S. CPI on Wednesday. CoinDesk cited a forecast of 3.6% headline inflation year over year, up from 3.4% the previous month, and 2.5% core. See our CPI explainer for business owners.
• Bank earnings today. JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup report, per CoinDesk.
• The AI-stock tape, which has been driving overnight risk appetite.

For the last report, see yesterday's prices. For the week's biggest gainers, see crypto movers and live crypto prices.

Sources: Coinbase Exchange price data; CoinDesk; the Financial Times and Bloomberg as cited by CoinDesk. Crypto assets are volatile. This is market information, not investment advice.